Rome has been on the airline's radar after two years of rebuilding.
A Cathay Pacific A350 (Photo: AirlineGeeks | Ben Suskind)
Cathay Pacific will bolster service to Italy by resuming flight operations to Rome in June 2025. The new flight will operate three times a week with an Airbus A350-900 aircraft.
The new service comes after Cathay Group announced that it had reached 100% of pre-pandemic flights and carried more than 100,000 passengers on Dec. 15, 2024.
“Cathay Pacific’s history in Italy stetches back close to 40 years when we first launched direct flights between Hong Kong and Rome in 1986,” Lavinia Lau, the airline’s chief customer and commercial officer, said in a news release.
Rome becomes the airline’s 12th European destination as Cathay Pacific currently operates five weekly flights to Milan. Flight operations between Hong Kong and the Italian capital were suspended since the pandemic.
Cathay Group is continuing to spread its wings with the aim of serving 100 destinations within 2025. Earlier, Cathay Pacific announced more destinations will be rolling out in 2025, such as Hyderabad, India, Dallas/Fort Worth, Munich, and Brussels. In addition, HK Express, the group’s low-cost carrier, is launching in Sendai, Japan in January.
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